[Bug]: Version number mismatch between downloaded deb package and installed

[acbekoac]

Steps to Reproduce

adjust the version number within the deb Package

Your Environment

• OS -Debian 11
• step CLI Version - 0.25.2

Expected Behavior

The version number shown during "dpki -i" should match the one in the name of the deb package

Actual Behavior

sudo dpkg -i /tmp/step-ca_amd64_0.25.3-rc3.deb
(Lese Datenbank ... 34685 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
Vorbereitung zum Entpacken von .../step-ca_amd64_0.25.3-rc3.deb ...
Entpacken von step-ca (0.25.2) über (0.25.2) ...
step-ca (0.25.2) wird eingerichtet ...

sudo dpkg -i /tmp/step-cli_amd64_0.25.3-rc3.deb
(Lese Datenbank ... 34685 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
Vorbereitung zum Entpacken von .../step-cli_amd64_0.25.3-rc3.deb ...
Entpacken von step-cli (0.25.2) über (0.25.2) ...
step-cli (0.25.2) wird eingerichtet ...

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[hslatman]

Hey @acbekoac,

It's possible the mismatch happens due to the -rc3 suffix. The version should be set automatically based on the git tag, and it does seem to do that at least for the binary. We'll cut the v0.26.0 soon, so I'm curious if it'll be set correctly for that.

[hslatman]

Hey @acbekoac, we've released https://github.com/smallstep/cli/releases/tag/v0.26.0 last week. Are you seeing the correct tag now?

[acbekoac]

Hi,

I can see the correct version now - see my script debug below

./check_for_newer_smallstep_version.sh

• LOCAL_VERSION=
• REMOTE_VERSION=
• readonly VERSION_URL=https://github.com/smallstep/cli/releases
• VERSION_URL=https://github.com/smallstep/cli/releases
• [[ -f /usr/bin/step ]]
  ++ /usr/bin/step version
  ++ sed -e 's/.CLI///;s/ (.//'
  ++ grep CLI
• LOCAL_VERSION=0.26.0
  ++ curl -s https://github.com/smallstep/cli/releases
  ++ head -n 1
  ++ grep '<h2.*Step CLI '
  ++ sed -e 's/.Step CLI v//;s/ (.//'
• REMOTE_VERSION=0.26.0
• [[ 0.26.0 == \0.\2\6.\0 ]]
• echo 'Step-CLI/CA - latest version installed'
  Step-CLI/CA - latest version installed
• exit 0

Issue seems fixed, so case can be closed

thx

[hslatman]

Great, thank you for your report, @acbekoac 🙂 Feel free to reopen in case it happens again.